Hi, I'm Victor 👋
Easygoing builder, Buddhist nerd, and dad who keeps turning ideas into little apps that (hopefully) make life more fun and more human.
I love creating tools that help people learn languages, chant with joy, and see life a bit more like a game—full of quests, upgrades, and hidden treasures.
Mission: build a world where “living beings enjoy themselves at ease” (众生所游乐), one tiny app and experiment at a time. This site (vcip.mrchang.com) is a subdomain of my brother’s main domain, mrchang.com.
About Me
I’m a Singapore-based engineer, maker, and dad. I spend a lot of my time building:
- language learning tools (Chinese, English, Vietnamese) that mix OCR, TTS, and grammar explanations,
- chanting and mindfulness apps that make spiritual practice playful, especially for kids,
- computer-vision and robotics solutions in my professional work.
I’m not trying to become a “guru” or build a paywall around faith, knowledge, or creativity. Most of what I create, I want to share freely. Donations simply help me spend more time building things that empower others.
A few quiet principles I live by:
- Empowerment first. The best “good” is helping someone unlock their own power.
- Life as a game. Quests, levels, and experiments beat guilt and perfectionism.
- Kind skepticism. Love logic, love spirituality, and let them argue nicely.
Also: I’m “bad at design” but keep shipping anyway. If something looks a bit ugly but strangely useful… it’s probably mine.
Support My Work
If my apps, ideas, or random experiments have helped you or made you smile, you can support me with a small donation.
I use Ko-fi as a simple, creator-friendly way to receive one-time tips. There’s no obligation at all — I’ll keep building regardless — but your support helps cover hosting, tools, and coffee (real and metaphorical).
Think of it as: “I like what you’re trying to do. Please keep going.”
Support me on Ko-fi ☕You’ll be taken to my Ko-fi page where you can choose any amount to donate.
What I’m Building
- Language & reading tools: apps that turn photos and screenshots into readable, explained text with TTS and grammar overlays—so kids and adults can explore languages with curiosity instead of fear.
- Chanting & mindfulness experiments: creative ways to chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo with music, rhythm, and tracking— especially to help children enjoy it, not endure it.
- Educational games: I love to create innovative games to help my kid learn subjects like english, math and chinese.
None of these are “finished”. They’re all evolving experiments — and your support lets me keep iterating, sharing, and keeping everything as accessible as possible.
Explore My Apps(in the process of curating all my apps)
- Text Reader — A multilingual text-to-speech web app. Copy what you want read to clipboard, press the 📋(paste icon) to start reading. Elderly friendly.
- Tier List Maker — Similar to Tier Maker you see on popular youtube channels. Also general purpose and flexible for playing games that you can drag things around for example you can try the wolf,cabbage,farmer,sheep,boat puzzle.
- [LEARN CHINESE] Tap Chinese — Tap a Chinese word once to hear it read aloud; tap it a second time to look up its meaning and example sentences.
- [LEARN CHINESE] ZH alchemy Explore Edition 中文🌿🍵🧪 — Exploration edition of chinese mixing game where you hone your chinese breaking characters into components and merging them.
- [LEARN CHINESE] ZH alchemy 3 Game Edition 中文🌿🍵🧪 — Game edition of chinese mixing game where you hone your chinese breaking characters into components and merging them.
- [LEARN ENGLISH] Word Fire Duel — Words with one letter missing flying around. Shoot letters to fill in the missing letter then select its meaning from two options.
- [LEARN ENGLISH] VC Dict — LLM-powered dictionary to ask about any language's word to english explanation a kid can understand.
- [LEARN MATH] Addition and Subtraction — Practise mental sum for addition and subtraction
- [LEARN MATH] Multiplication — Practise mental sum for multiplication